One of the things we've discussed in the past is my desire to build a quadcopter – or maybe a hexacopter – or possibly (dare I say it) an octocopter. I'd like to mount a really good digital camera to it and take interesting pictures of things.

Well, Rick regaled me with a website he'd found that explains how Dominos is testing a pizza delivery drone called the "Domicopter" – the idea is that this very tasty octocopter can rush your pizza to your house a lot faster than a guy driving a car, plus you wouldn’t have to tip (Click Here to read the full story).

But wait, there's more – Rick also tells me that a Japanese restaurant chain called Yo!Sushi is experimenting with a quadcopter that delivers sushi to your table (Click Here to read this story).

Can you imagine a future in which the skies (and restaurants) are jam-packed with these little rascals? I wonder what my dear old dad would have thought about this. I've said it before and I'll say it again… we certainly do live in interesting times…

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@kfield: Would 3x the price be worth it to have pizza delivered by drone?

Where did you get the 3X price from? Home delivery is already pretty expensive as compared to picking the pizza up oneself -- we do it for the convenience. During rush hour it can take 40 mins or more for the pizza to arrive, and our house is only about 2 miles away from the local Dominos as the crow (hex-copter) flies. I don't see how the drioen woudl cost more than paying for a delivery person -- plus there's the added advantyage that you wouldn't feel obliged to give a 20% tip.

Thinking about a whole traffic jam of these copters flying around makes me think about the Bruce Willis movie The Fifth Element, where he was the a flying taxicab driver. Traffic management in 2 dimensions sounds like it would be a nightmare if the skies were crowded enough!